Telephone Switching Hub

In the central switching hub pictured here, several telephone connections are made. Despite technological advances, telephones in a large office building still have to be manually connected together with wires. As in this photograph, this process may involve hundreds of telephone cables.

Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis

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Integrated Services Digital Network; Telecommunications; Communication; Telephone

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